Saying goodbye to the World Cup teams we’ve lost. Hi, everyone!
Get “Graduation (Friends Forever)” by Vitamin C cued up, everyone, because, starting today, I am writing obituaries to the teams we’ve lost in the World Cup.
Ramble of the Day
There is something so sudden the earliest of World Cup eliminations. We spend years building up to the biggest spectacle in sports, counting down the days like some of us do in anticipation of Christmas. We speculate, day and night, about how the events will shake out, and somehow, the tournament finally comes. The opening few days are intoxicating to the point where it feels like fun football without a catch.
But, as Egypt proved on Tuesday, the other shoe can drop very quickly. For months after th...